A Fair Share of What Little We Have
Our National Health Service spends 1120 per person per year, and is still seriously short of money. Tanzania can only afford El and their health problems are much worse than ours. Half the children die before the age of five.
Tanzania is pioneering its own health system - one that rejects the Western concept of medicine. Peasants with only six months training treat tropical ulcers and malaria. Men after a simple three-year course cure pneumonia and bilharzia with exactly the same competence as a doctor.
If the system works, then it promises a way of overcoming ill health in the Third World, and for us in the West too it may mean a radical rethink about the role of doctors and hospitals.
Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Written and produced by EDWARD GOLBWYN